Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?

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The answers you have come up with are more to do with sceptics, rather than atheists. Self proclaimed sceptics are almost always atheists, it's a direct result. But not all atheists are sceptics. Some arrive at atheism through ways other than analysis of evidence. Theists tend to shy away from the label, because their techniques do not follow those of science and logic.

You're right. God has to be carefully defined so that it can't be proven to not exist. Because if it could, then it would. This isn't an accident. It's the same with almost all religious claims. They can't be proved wrong. They are unfalsifiable. This makes them useless. (Not necessarily wrong, just useless, because their truth value can never be determined.) I have a video on this which I'll fish out in a minute.

Whenever religion makes a non-trivial falsifiable claim, it usually gets falsified almost immediately.





Also, trying to use "can't prove it isn't" as an argument for why something is true is called the argument from ignorance fallacy. I explain this below.